Strange celebrity perpectives

[davidedric]

Hi everyone,

Have you noticed the fashion for magazines showing full length images of celebrities with abnormally bigger upper body and head, as if they were leaning towards the camera? I am sure it's just a perspective shift in pp, but why? To me it just looks awful!

I'm struggling to find an on-line example, but if you have no idea what I'm taking about, I'll try a bit harder!

Dave

[Shadowman]

I've noticed and it's acceptable in most instances, for instance when suggesting that the viewer is either a voyeur or subject is being photographed from aerial location.

[rpcrowe]

Hi everyone,

Have you noticed the fashion for magazines showing full length images of celebrities with abnormally bigger upper body and head, as if they were leaning towards the camera? I am sure it's just a perspective shift in pp, but why? To me it just looks awful!

I'm struggling to find an on-line example, but if you have no idea what I'm taking about, I'll try a bit harder!

Dave

Dave,

I have a fetish against the type of image that you described above. I believe that this is a result of using a WA or UWA angle lens from eye level when shooting a person fairly close. As with most objects close to the camera, the upper torso is accentuated in size.

The way to prevent this is to either shoot with a longer focal length from a distance or to shoot from about waist level so that both the top and bottom portions of the subject's body are equidistant from the lens.

You will also see examples of this type of distortion in the Paparazzi images of celebrities which are either shot from long distances with longer focal lengths or up close with WA or UWA lenses...

[Saorsa]

I think it comes from using a wide angle and holding the camera up over a crowd of photographers. The high angle and wide angle cause the odd vanishing point somewhere below the floor behind the celebrity.

[Black Pearl]

You answered your own question within half a dozen words.

It is a fashion thing and fashions don't have to have a reason or even be reasonable they just have to be 'in' at that point in time.

[IzzieK]

I think it comes from using a wide angle and holding the camera up over a crowd of photographers. The high angle and wide angle cause the odd vanishing point somewhere below the floor behind the celebrity.

Plus the fact that they are posing that kind of pose as suggested by their handlers that when having a picture taken, raise your head up like looking over the fence (or something similar) then move the face down for the pose or turn the face around...this is to eliminate the double chin being noticed...BUT the big BUT is that the location of the photographer in the pecking order is not conducive to the way the models are currently located near their radar lens. This is just my opinion...